Dress-stay



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I DRESS STAY. No. 543,069. Patented July 23, 1895.

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NiTE STATES ATENT DE VER H. WARNER, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

DRESS-STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 543,069, dated July 23,1895. Application filed July 21,1894. Serial No.51a24s. (N 1,)

' To all whom it .may concern.-

Be it known that I, DE VER H. WARNER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dressor Corset Stays; and I do hereby declare the following to be a clear,full, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improved dress or corset stay.

It has'for its object the provision of a cheap and durable stay the endsof which are so formed as to prevent the stay from injuring or wearingthrough the cover of the article to which they are applied and therebychafing the flesh of the wearer.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, andin which like letters and numerals of reference indicate correspondingparts, Figure l is a perspective view of the invention. Fig. 2 is anenlarged sectional view showing more particularly the preferred means oftipping the stay. Fig. 3 is a modification of the invention in which twoparallel stays are used. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of a modification,illustrating the means of securing a number of superposed staystogether.

In the drawings, A represents the stay proper, formed of steel, bone, orany suitable resilient material and provided near each end with a hole1.

B is the casing or cover for the stay A, consisting of some suitableflexible material. As shown in Fig. 1,this cover or casing is woven andis provided with a central longitudinal pocket 2 for the reception ofthe stay, leav-' ing stitching edges 3 on each side of the stay, bywhich it may be stitched to the garment if desired; or, if desired, itmay consist of a woven casing just wide enough to admit of the staysbeing inserted therein and without stitching edges .on the sidesthereof; or it may be formed of two separate strips, as shown in Fig.4:, which strips are secured together by lines of stitching on each sideof the stay. These or any desirable or wellknown forms of casings may beused in connection with the invention, as I do not wish to be limited tothe particular form of easing shown.

One of the disks is placed on each side of the covered stay in such aposition that the holes 6 therein will register with the hole 1 in theends of the stay. An eyelet 7 is then passed through said hole 1, thecovering B, and the holes 6 to clamp the covering to the stay and form atip for the same. Thus arranged the edges of the disks 5 project beyondthe ends of the stay A, and the ends of the covering B beyond the edgesof the disks 5. These projecting ends of the covering B become unraveled when they are cut, thereby forming a cushion at each end of thestay, which prevents the fastening devices of the tip from coming incontact with the fabric of the garment to which the stay is applied andcutting or otherwise'injuring it.

In the modification illustrated by Fig. 3 means are shown for applyingmy invention to a twin stay. These means consist in forming semicircularrecesses 9 in the contacting edges of two parallel stays 10 near theends thereof, and so that they will be aligned when the stays areproperly adjusted, the covering B, disks 5, and eyelet 7 being appliedin the same manner as in Fig. 1.

What I claim is In a dress stay, the combination of the resilientportion, the disks arranged upon both sides of the resilient portion andprojecting beyond the ends thereof, means for securing said disks to theresilient portion, and a covname to this specification in the presenceof 100 two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses:

F. S. ANDREWS, GEORGE S. HILL.

DE VER H. WARNER.

